Paul LaRosa
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/paullarosa
born
April 01, 1963
gender
male
place of birth
nyc, The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction
influences
truman capote, the beatles, paul simon, j.d. salinger, marvel comic books (especialy spiderman) -- it's no accident that i went to work for a newspaper after reading so many comic books about clark kent and peter parker, both of whom worked at big city dailies.
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November 2007
about this author
** Please take a look at my newly-designed personal blog: Here is New York.
www.paullarosa.com/blog
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i lived for many years on story avenue in the bronx in a public housing project and, if i ever write a memoir, that's going to be the title -- story avenue.
a lot happened there and someday i'll put it down on paper. in the meantime, i've lived in every borough of nyc except staten island and have no plans to move there. i've never even traveled there to see a game at the staten island yankees ballpark and i love the yanks/hate the red sox. i went to many many yankee games as a kid because i went to high school on the grand concourse so the yanks are in my blood. w...more
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Tacoma Confidential: A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life by Paul LaRosa (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.68 — 25 ratings — published 2006 |
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Death of a Dream (48 Hours Mystery) by Paul LaRosa (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.77 — 22 ratings — published 2008 |
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Nightmare in Napa: The Wine Country Murders by Paul LaRosa (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Nightmare in Napa: The Wine Country Murders (Hardcover) by Paul LaRosa (Goodreads author) |
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Paul said "yes" to attending the event: Fiftieth Anniversary of Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style": Panel discussion.
date: April 16, 2009 06:30PM location: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY, The United States description: A celebration and discussion of the influence of "The Elements of Style" with Barbara Wallraff, Roy Blount, Jr., Lauren Lipton, and Roger Rosenblatt. "The Elements of Style," by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White—the most widely read and influential manual of English writing style—turns 50 years old on April 16, 2009. Join us for an evening celebration and discussion of the influence of "the little book" with an illustrious group of writers and crit...more | |
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Free Food for Millionaires (Paperback) by Min Jin Lee |
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century (Hardcover) by Howard Blum |
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Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers |
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"an honest, straightforward book with a writing style to match. everything a memoir should be....you really feel like you know the author by the end.
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Her Last Death (Hardcover) by Susanna Sonnenberg |
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"excellent memoir. if someone had a worse mother than this one, i don't want to meet her. harrowing and engaging. loved it.
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family (Paperback) by Patricia Volk |
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"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
— Maya Angelou
2 editions— Maya Angelou
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Sorry I'm so late with this but thanks for the add!
Brooklyn Darkchild
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Hi, Paul, thanks for the add! I have to confess that I don't read true crime myself, but my mother does, & then I get to hear all the gory details. I know she's read a couple of yours & we've both enjoyed them. :-)Heidi
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PaulThank you for the add. I glanced through your bookshelves and what a great reading collection. The books that you've written also look fantastic. I have to admit...true crime for me is a tough, but often well worth the effort, read.
xo
Maggie
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats. -Jeremy :)
P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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Hi Paul!Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.
-Jeremy :)
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